

A night patrolling teacher cuts the unsatisfying meeting short. Riki offers the above synopsis of helping Rin be independent, but Kyousuke disappointedly replies that he has misunderstood the question and ask him whether he has discovered the secret of this world. Riki confronts Kyousuke, but Kyousuke replies nonchalantly, asking what Riki thinks of this. To confirm this, he goes to the school at night to stalk Lennon, the cat who brought so many missions to Rin. Riki sees disparate evidence of Kyousuke's hand in the forces that drove Rin to mature and finally reach this point where she will leave the Little Busters. After Rin agrees to go, Riki decides to investigate one last suspicion.

He plans to keep in touch with her and see her during the weekends, but it still pains him to push her to this path. Finally he decides to persuade Rin to go. He has seen Rin mature and cannot discount Kyousuke's reasoning that this is an opportunity for Rin to develop independence. Again the fated selection to transfer schools arrives. Now when she volunteers to escort the bigwigs with Riki, she takes the effort to practice earnestly and speak properly when escorting them. In previous plays, Riki had to step in and help significantly with Lennon's requests, but now Rin fulfills them through her own efforts. Manipulation During the next playthrough, Rin is markedly less shy and awkward. As he has blacked out, a disembodied voice tells him, " Alright, good job. Then one day, as Riki is about to leave the classroom, he simply faints. Their time together preserved, Riki and Rin have a happy fun couple time going shopping and playing with cats.

She doesn not really want to go either, so she declines the offer. He and Rin just started dating, so he tells her not to go. Of course Riki notices that he will have none of this. The administration wants an energetic student like Rin to enroll there and help cheer them up. Apparently a certain school recently faced a tragedy, so its students are all depressed. Still, they manage to complete the tour, and a few days later Kyousuke tells Riki that Rin has been nominated for a special school transfer. The day of the tour arrives, and Rin can not completely dispel her awkward mannerisms. Thus Kyousuke leads the Little Busters in giving her training and practice, though this mostly results in Rin cat hissing at Kyousuke's buzzer. This is a tall order for Rin, who's almost as far removed from polite speech as a mafia member. They do, and it turns out that they're now tasked with escorting a couple of Education Department bigwigs through the school. Afterwards they receive one more letter from Lennon, asking Rin and Riki to volunteer next class. Riki is apprehensive, but they all approve, even Kyousuke. After a short agonizing, it becomes a deal, and they go around telling the rest of the Little Busters. Finally Rin makes the monumental suggestion that Riki starts dating her. Riki has barely even spoken to the girl who wrote the letter, so when they meet her turns her down to the tune of " Let's get to know each other better first." He consults his friends for advice, but they tell him to simply do what he feels. time to enter depression town: Rin 2 and Refrain.School Transfer Riki finds a love letter in his shoe locker. That last one actually ended up stopping him from advancing to the top in my last playthrough.īut now. I'll be sure to look back at this once I've done all the other storylines this game has to offer.Īlso, in contrast to all my previous experience with this game, I saw Saito lose against people other than Riki. I suspect Mio's average would have been far better if I didn't do her story 6th. Komari did strangely well, even managing to break into the top 3 once. Kurugaya also seems to do much worse than one would assume since the story makes her out to be such a badass. Going through all those rankings again, it really does feel like the "new" members are handicapped since they don't get to move up much, or they get kicked down by Saito if he shows up. In other words, I've finished 7 battle rankings.
